Kata Markon

[JFAlward AT aol.com]

In a message dated 1/24/01 1:42:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
larry.swain AT wmich.edu writes:

<< My question regarding the Homer-Mark thesis is if Mark is truly aware
 and has read Home, how do we account for Mark's largely abyssmal Greek
 style?
  >>
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That's a wonderful question; I've indicated in some of my articles about 
MacDonald's comparisons that I suspect that "Mark" was a student practicing 
his Greek.  I didn't say it, but I also suspect that the correlations 
attempted by Mark are as clumsy as they are because he was relying on oral 
tradition.  He need not have read Homer at all; in fact, the article, "The 
Baptist's Head" discusses the traditional story of Agamemnon's slaying by 
Aegistus and Klytemnestra.  In Homer, Klytemnestra did not strike Agamemnon, 
but through telling and retelling over centuries, the traditional tale that 
developed held that Klytemnestra chopped off her Agamemnon's head herself.

That article is found in the directory at 
http://members.aol.com/jalw/joseph_alward.html